Allison Janney
Actor, Film actor
1959 –
Who is Allison Janney?
Allison Brooks Janney is an American actress. She is a six-time Primetime Emmy Award winner for her television work and has won a Drama Desk Award and received two Tony Award nominations for her work in the theatre.
Janney made her Broadway debut in 1996, in a revival of the Noel Coward play Present Laughter. For her role in the 1997 Broadway revival of A View From the Bridge, she won a Drama Desk Award and received her first Tony Award nomination. She played White House Press Secretary C. J. Cregg on the television series The West Wing, a role for which she received six Emmy Award nominations, winning four. The role also won her a Satellite Award and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2009, she was nominated for a second Tony Award, for her role in the Broadway musical 9 to 5.
Since 2013, she has starred as Bonnie Plunkett on the CBS sitcom Mom, winning the 2014 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She has also played the recurring role of Margaret Scully on the Showtime series Masters of Sex, for which she won the 2014 Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.
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- Born
- Nov 19, 1959
Boston - Also known as
- Allison Brooks Janney
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Dennis Gagomiros
(1982 - 2001)
- Dennis Gagomiros
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Kenyon College
- The Hotchkiss School
- The Miami Valley School
- Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
- Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre
- Lived in
- Dayton
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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